Eunice

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Eunice W. Johnson gave Ebony magazine its name and for almost 50 years produced an influential traveling fashion show that brought haute couture to African-Americans while raising millions of dollars for charity. The widow of Johnson Publishing Co. founder John H. Johnson, who died in 2005, Mrs. Johnson, 93, died of renal failure on Sunday, Jan. 3, at her Chicago home, according to a company spokeswoman. A close business partner of her husband's since the beginning of Johnson Publishing in 1942, Mrs. Johnson was the company's secretary-treasurer at the time of her death and for years wrote a monthly fashion feature for Ebony.

Hollywood Moon. Joseph Wambaugh. Little, Brown. $26.99. 352 pp. Veteran author Joseph Wambaugh weaves together several seemingly unrelated vignettes for a darkly comic, gritty look at street cops and identity thieves in Los Angeles. In the last of his trilogy chronicling the goings-on in a Hollywood police station, Wambaugh balances Hollywood Moon's absurd situations with the horrible behavior of people who have little regard for others. But each scene - whether outlandish or poignant - has a sense of authenticity.

A Broward County grand jury on Wednesday formally charged Myong Sun Ji with first-degree murder in the death of his niece, Eunice Brown. The grand jury also charged Ji with attempted first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse in the Aug. 10 killing. Ji, 33, is accused of striking Eunice, 13, with a crowbar during an argument with his sister, Myong Il Brown. He was living with the Browns at the time of the attack, despite a restraining order filed by Myong Il Brown's husband, Allan Brown, barring Ji from contact with their children.

When Eunice Brown was born, her beaming father picked up the infant and held her out to her maternal grandmother. "What should we call her?" Allan Brown asked in Korean. "Eun Hi," came the reply. Bright, shining flower. Her father nodded; the name was perfect. The pretty 13-year-old girl, who was killed with a crowbar on Monday, would have adored the enormous floral arrangements that surrounded her casket, said her grieving father on Thursday. "She loved flowers, especially red, yellow and pink ones," Brown said, managing to smile despite red, swollen eyes.

Barbara Black couldn't believe it when she heard that 13-year-old Eunice Brown had been fatally hit in the head with a crowbar. All she could think about was the precocious girl who sang in all-county chorus at Deerfield Park Elementary School and dreamed about being a doctor. "We were just all devastated. . . . She's the kind of kid that I just felt that we were going to hear that she'd done something fantastic, like find the cure for cancer or for AIDS," said Black, Eunice's former chorus teacher.

Less than an hour after he buried his 13-year-old daughter, Allan Brown lashed out at his brother-in-law for hitting her with a crowbar and blamed the legal system for not protecting her. "My rights and my daughter's rights have been totally violated," he said on Friday, after Eunice Brown's funeral Mass at St. Vincent Catholic Church in Margate. Despite the sweltering heat, more than 300 mourners showed up to weep for the slain girl and offer sympathy to her family. The Brown family hovered protectively around Eunice's mother, Myong Il Brown, shielding her from onlookers.

Some days, young Earl Everett would return home and meet a new brother or sister. His grandmother, Eunice Williams, had offered her tiny home tucked off a dirt road to another foster child. And so Everett, who'd grow up to be a starting linebacker for the Florida Gators, would extend a hand to another live-in playmate. "I just looked at it like we were all kin," Everett said. "Inside the house, outside the house, everybody was kin. My grandma loved everyone, so I tried to love everyone."

Eunice Sivertsen already has nine Muscovy ducklings in her back yard when she gets a call: Can she take two more? Four baby ducks arrived the week before, after they fell into a drain and were rescued by firefighters. Five others, orphaned when their mother was killed, were brought here from Delray Beach. Summer is busy season at Duck Haven, the rescue operation Sivertsen runs from her back yard on a quiet street in Margate. There are the orphaned or wayward ducklings. And the bored kids who run over the Muscovies with their bicycles.

The man convicted of murdering his niece with a crowbar more than two years ago was sentenced on Thursday to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Myong Sun Ji, 36, a Korean national, killed his 13-year-old niece, Eunice Brown, with a crowbar on Aug. 10, 1998, following an argument with the girl's mother in their Margate home. "I believe while the incident was a single blow, the magnitude of that blow cannot go unanswered or unpunished," Broward Circuit Judge Ronald J. Rothschild said in pronouncing sentence.

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A Broward County jury recommended life in prison without parole on Tuesday for a Korean national convicted of killing his 13-year-old niece with a single blow to the head from a crowbar. The jurors took a little more than one hour to decide to spare Myong Sun Ji, 35, from execution. Broward Circuit Judge Ronald J. Rothschild said he would follow the jury's recommendation when he sentences Ji on Feb. 15. The parents of the victim, Eunice Brown, said they were satisfied with the sentence.